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If you use this feature, feel free to contact the project.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"File(s):","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" ","type":"text"},{"text":"conf/admin/admin.properties, conf/admin/unlock-keys.xml, views/admin/unlock-keys.vm","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"type":"hardBreak"},{"text":"Format:","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}]},{"text":" Native Spring, Velocity, Properties","type":"text"}]},{"type":"extension","attrs":{"layout":"default","extensionType":"com.atlassian.confluence.macro.core","extensionKey":"toc","parameters":{"macroParams":{},"macroMetadata":{"macroId":{"value":"3287c1a5-44a7-4e7a-9072-2b2c4d9653f4"},"schemaVersion":{"value":"1"},"title":"Table of Contents"}},"localId":"5ab12114-8671-4d32-baa2-0aa4746a51c1"}},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Overview","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"The \"attended restart\" feature renders the IdP unusable if it restarts without human intervention. Most systems obviously focus on the opposite of that characteristic. The reason behind this feature is key protection. There aren't a lot of cost-effective, simple solutions to protecting private and secret keys (there are complex ones, expensive ones, and complex, expensive ones, of course). The concept behind this feature is that it allows keys to be encrypted on disk, but without the password stored anywhere with the key and entered manually when the service is restarted.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":3},"content":[{"text":"Background","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"An issue with the IdP is that it is a huge focal point for risk, and the way that SAML is typically used focuses on deployability and not on security, namely the use of a pushed, signed token through the client whose only security rests on the protection of the signing key. With no back-channel step to add additional hurdles for an attacker, everything depends on the key.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"If all SPs ran Shibboleth or SimpleSAML.php (etc.), this would be a reasonable thing to deal with by simply rotating the signing key through metadata on a semi-regular basis. Unfortunately virtually nothing else out there has any story for handling either key revocation or rotation, and if your auditors find out about this, you may be facing some difficult conversations that start with questions like how many administrators of your backup systems have access to the private key.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"My (Scott's) solution to this problem was to check out how much Amazon's HMS solution costs, vomit, and then start looking into options. One of them would be some kind of \"vault\" solution to house the key, but that ultimately just moves the problem and potentially adds a different set of staff with access to the key. One of the things I thought about was how many times in the 20+ year history I've run an IdP that I had to rely on a node restarting without me asking it to, and the answer was zero. It also helps that I don't care about Docker or other technologies that solve deployment problems I don't have.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"So my choice was to investigate what it would take to get the IdP to start with both the private and secret key(s) locked or unconfigured, and change that state at runtime. Somewhat surprisingly, this mostly worked.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Enabling Module","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Configuring and using this feature requires that you first enable the \"idp.admin.UnlockKeys\" module if it isn't already enabled. 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There are two parts to using this:","type":"text"}]},{"type":"bulletList","content":[{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Adjust the private and secret key settings to defer availability.","type":"text"}]}]},{"type":"listItem","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"Enable the unlock-keys webflow to get them installed after startup.","type":"text"}]}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"There are two significant risk points, the private key(s) used to sign messages and the secret key(s) used to support client-side session storage. Not every system uses the latter, but client-side storage is the default, so it's typically a factor. There are also private key(s) used to decrypt XML, but the impact of those keys is much less significant, and they don't get much use. 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This is not ideal, but it's assumed that if you're using this feature you're aware of what you're doing and you should know that you need to unlock the system before putting it into live use.","type":"text"}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"text":"Unlock Flow","type":"text"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"text":"To use this feature, a new ","type":"text"},{"text":"administrative","type":"text","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"/wiki/spaces/IDP5/pages/3199510151"}}]},{"text":" flow is provided that has a crude user interface to collect password(s) via a web form and manipulate the system's internals to unlock and install the keys necessary to put the system into a normal state as if the feature hadn't been used. 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